This volume shows, in a non-technical way and using examples from medicine and biology, how the rigorous application of theories and insights from philosophical ontology can improve the ontologies upon which information management depends.

While the completion of ontologies and ontology networks can be done at any point in the life-cycle of ontologies and ontology networks, some of the issues can be addressed already in the development phase.

Ontologies are formal knowledge models that describe concepts and relationships and enable data integration, information search, and reasoning.

It is investigated how biologically-inspired optimisation methods can be used to compute alignments between ontologies.

... ontology, the third in an idealistic. To the counter-argument that there could be an undesigned God who, in the case of materialistic ontology, created the world, the answer is that God is only conceptualized as a subject, a spirit, and ...